Tetra Pak (Lund, Sweden), a food packaging machinery manufacturer, has selected Stalatube Oy’s (Lahti, Finland) stainless steel hollow sections for the framing structures of its packaging machines. Economical feasibility and flexible installation were major reasons for choosing Stalatube.
When Suspa Inc. (Altdorf/Nuremberg, Germany), a producer of nitrogen gas cylinders, began looking for a U.S. company to supply assembly equipment to its North American unit, its search stopped with JR Automation Technologies Inc. (Holland, MI), a custom machine builder.
Circular geometry measurements of rotors for gas turbine generators are important. The rotating parts of a turbine rotor unit range up to 96 inches in diameter, 120 inches in length and weigh up to 25,000 pounds.
The goal at Amerex Corp. (Trussville, AL), a manufacturer of commercial and industrial fire extinguishers, was to automate the assembly of fire extinguisher valves.